It will definitely not work if you don’t listen.
So although Adou was resisting in his heart, his body was still very honest. He just heard him say, "Please speak to me, please listen to your instructions."
At the same time, I was thinking that if the father-in-law really wanted him to hand over the money, he would have to hide it no matter what.
Or bargain?
Or even ask for a blind date?
Just when he was thinking wildly, he heard Zhuge Liang say, "Your Majesty, the late emperor is buried in Huiling, and sacrifices need to be made at all times. Winter has begun. Your Majesty, please choose an auspicious day and go there in person to worship."
Except for the late emperor's memorial day, which requires Adou to go in person, ministers or clan relatives can be sent to worship on weekdays.
Adou was absent-minded at this time. After hearing the word "sacrifice", he thought he could just send people there as before, so he said casually, "Well, okay, this matter..."
At this point, he suddenly realized, "What your father-in-law means... is that you want me to go there in person?"
"yes."
Although the request from the father-in-law was a bit strange, Adou was an obedient child, so he nodded immediately and said, "Okay, Zen knows, I will go there in person when the time comes."
After saying that, he asked cautiously, "Is this the reason why Xiangfu came to the palace?"
When Zhuge Liang heard this, he nodded and said, "It's really just for this. Does your Majesty have other things to do?"
"No more, no more."
As soon as he heard that the prime minister was not here for his own money, Adou suddenly felt relieved and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "It is Zen's responsibility to sacrifice to heaven, earth and all our ancestors. The political affairs and safety of the Han Dynasty are entrusted to the prime minister.
Father is tired."
Adou has been the emperor for so long, and with the queen's daily persuasion, he has finally understood that as long as his father-in-law is still alive, he will never be able to rule personally, so he has basically given up on this idea at this time.
But as the queen said, my husband is already over forty, and he is only seventeen this year, so there is still a lot of time, so there is no need to worry.
Although this was just what Adou said casually, Zhuge Liang's heart was slightly agitated when he thought about the entrustment of the late emperor, even though he was the prime minister in charge of the power of the Han Dynasty.
At that moment, he bowed deeply and said, "How dare I not swear to serve my life? Even if I spend my life and property, I will ensure that your majesty returns to the old capital and revitalize the Han Dynasty."
Seeing this, A Dou opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but couldn't. In the end, he just sighed secretly.
His father, as well as his uncles, had been working hard to revive the Han Dynasty all their lives.
But the result was that they only occupied this state to delay the Han Dynasty.
Adou asked himself that he did not have the talent of his father, let alone the bravery. If he had the chance to fulfill his last wish, he would definitely be willing to fulfill it.
But what he fears is that he simply cannot shoulder this responsibility.
He admired Xiangfu's persistence, and he understood that Xiangfu was solely for the sake of the big man.
But the same question arises: can the Prime Minister do it alone when his father is so talented and has so many powerful advisers and generals around him, but he cannot do it?
Why not bide your time?
Or, leaving it to future generations... is also an option, right?
But he didn't dare to say these words to his father-in-law.
"Zen, thank you, Mr. Xiangfu."
In the end, Adou could only salute Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang left the palace and was about to return to the Prime Minister's Mansion when he saw a man coming over to salute, "I've met the Prime Minister."
Zhuge Liang took a closer look and found out that it was Dong Yun, the assistant minister of Huangmen in the palace.
"It turns out to be Xiu Zhao. What is Xiu Zhao doing here?"
"Go back to the Prime Minister, Yunte is waiting for the Prime Minister here."
"Xiu Zhao, is something wrong?"
When Zhuge Liang heard this, he understood a bit.
"It's not a big deal," Dong Yun said a little hesitantly, "It's just that something happened in the palace before the Prime Minister entered the palace, and Yun thought it would be better to tell the Prime Minister."
Dong Yun was the person Zhuge Liang put in the palace to advise the emperor. This year when the queen had a difficult delivery, the palace was in chaos. It was thanks to Dong Yun's abiding by his duties that there were no major problems in the palace.
When he heard him say this, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but asked with some concern, "What's the matter?"
"Not long before the Prime Minister entered the palace, the Queen sent someone out of the palace to obtain hundreds of pieces of fine woolen cloth."
"A hundred pieces of fine woolen cloth?" Zhuge Liang was really surprised this time, "So many? Why didn't anyone in the treasury report to me?"
"That's why the strange thing happened. I just went to check it out. Those woolen cloths were not taken from the treasury. I heard they were taken from outside the palace."
Dong Yun also felt strange about this matter.
"Could it be that someone wants to get lucky through this?"
Zhuge Liang was the first to think of this, wondering who could be so bold?
Then I remembered the emperor's behavior just now, no wonder he seemed to be hiding something.
Finally, he suddenly remembered that when he went out, a batch of woolen cloth was being shipped back to his house, and it was his wife who sent it back - so he finally remembered a certain country turtle.
For a moment, the face of the Han Prime Minister suddenly turned cloudy and clear, green and white.
"Prime Minister, would you like to lower your rank and investigate this matter in the palace?"
Dong Yun asked softly.
Zhuge Liang twitched the corner of his mouth and said with a strange expression, "No need. I know who did this, so you don't have to worry about it."
I remembered that Your Majesty is talented and smart, but he doesn't like to study. I didn't expect that he would be interested in having fun.
Good, very good!
If you don't study hard in the future, I will find a way to confiscate your income!
The Han Prime Minister became more and more angry as he thought about it.
Adou, who was having fun counting the tickets with the queen in the harem, suddenly sneezed, and then continued to count again without caring.
Little did he know that his pocket money had been imaginatively targeted.
If you don't study hard, you will use your pocket money to blackmail you. It seems to be the natural instinct of parents.
Although the Han Prime Minister was embarrassed to be angry with Dong Yun, the anger in his heart towards a certain country turtle that had calmed down suddenly suddenly surged up again.
At a young age, if you don’t follow the right path and only follow these crooked ways, you are really... really a wall of dung that cannot be conquered!
"Why is it a crooked way?"
Huang Yueying was sitting in the middle of a pile of fine woolen cloths with a face full of joy, and there was an unparalleled beauty beside her helping to count the cloths. When she heard her Alang scolding people like this, she immediately became unhappy.
"When he sent the share over, didn't you object and let me accept it? Why do you say this to me now that you have received the dividend?"
"At that time...how did I know that this output would be so powerful?"
Zhuge Liang looked at the fine woolen cloth in the room and felt that his teeth really hurt. Then he thought about what he thought the boy would do when he went to Hanzhong, which would be the same as raising chickens in Jincheng.
But now when I think of what I thought at that time, my face feels hot and painful.
Even this kind of chicken raising is getting bigger and bigger, and it is no longer what it was before.
Therefore, a certain bastard who doesn't act according to common sense is the most disgusting thing!
"Did you know that the output of his textile workshop can provide half of the salary of officials in the Han Dynasty?"
Zhuge Liang said, then looked at Huang Yueying and Guan Ji, "Now it's been divided among you. How much food do you think this will cost?!"
The more Zhuge Liang talked, the more he felt his heart burning up. He pointed at the wool cloth with some trembling and said, "Don't you think it's hot to hold?"
Guan Ji did not dare to speak, so she quietly moved two steps and retreated behind her aunt.
Although she is a tiger girl, she is still a little scared when Wolong gets angry.
"do not think so!"
Huang Yueying rolled her eyes at Zhuge Liang, "Why do you think it's hot if you earn it through your own skills?"
As he spoke, he snorted again and said, "Back then, the late emperor rewarded you with so much money and grain, and you divided it all. In the end, only the eight hundred mulberry trees and fifteen hectares of land were left that could not be distributed to others, so I left them here."
Coming down, what did I say then?"
"Over the years, haven't the people in the house wanted to eat and drink? Also, you asked me to make those plows and crossbows before. Do you know how much money and food they cost?"
As she talked, Huang Yueying felt more and more justified that she had a reason, so she put her hands on her hips and shouted, "You deal with political affairs all day long. You don't know how tight the household expenses are."
"Look at the clothes I wear. They are all linen all year round. Did I say anything? Those who know me say that I am the wife of the prime minister, but they think I come from some small family!"
"It's just food, drink and clothing. I just help you research those useless things. The money and food are the biggest expense. If you don't want this woolen cloth, that's fine. Don't even think about asking me to make things for you in the future. I don't have money or food anyway.
I can’t do it either.”
Zhuge Liang was snatched away by Huang Yueying with a gun and a stick. He who prided himself on being an eloquent man was actually choked and speechless for a moment.
After a long while, he suddenly said, "Nowadays, all officials in the Han Dynasty are proud of being honest. As the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, I have so many woolen cloths in my house. How can I explain it to the world?"
"The reason why we are proud of being honest is because the big man is too poor!"
Huang Yueying said disdainfully, "The imperial court has become a lot more comfortable this year. Even officials can go to restaurants to drink. Do you think I don't know that?"
Zhuge Liang almost spat out his old blood. Only today did he realize that his superior can speak more than himself.
"Which restaurant is so bold! How dare you sell alcohol? Did you know that the imperial court has a ban on alcohol?"
The great Han Dynasty Prime Minister immediately became angry with shame!
The big man is now the head of the family. It is unbearable for his subordinate to expose the bloody truth that the big man is too poor!
If you can't speak well of your own gentleman, can you say that you can't handle the wine seller on the street?
"What they are selling is not real wine, it just smells like wine."
Huang Yueying glanced at Zhuge Liang and said casually.
After Zhuge Liang heard this, he stumbled out immediately. He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood on the spot.
"Aunt, is it too much to talk to uncle like this?"
After Zhuge Liang went out, Guan Ji asked softly.
"What are you afraid of?"
Huang Yueying watched the Han Prime Minister leave with a victorious expression. When she heard Guan Ji ask, she turned her head and said with a smile, "Don't look at his appearance, but in fact, you have already agreed with what I said."
As he spoke, he held Guan Ji's hand and said in the tone of someone who has experienced it, "You can't just spoil this man, nor can you just suppress him. If you just spoil him, he will feel like you are easy to bully, and if you just suppress him, you will
will alienate you."
"Tolerate him on weekdays and show your strength occasionally. This is the way to get along. Besides, is there any couple in the world who doesn't quarrel? Only after quarreling do you know where each other is untouchable, right?"
As he spoke, he sighed again and said, "How could I not know that the Prime Minister has worked so hard for the great man these years? How could he not know what I have done for him?"
"The two of us don't say it with our mouths, but we always understand it in our hearts."
As he spoke, he patted the woolen cloth with a wry smile on his face, "The late emperor rewarded him with 800,000 dendrobium rice, but didn't he use it all in the end? No one even knew where he used it."
"So these woolen cloths will most likely have to be taken out. As long as the big man is unjust, this family may not have enough money."
Huang Yueying said this with a proud look on her face, "My husband is like this. As his wife, how can I lag behind? The reason why I am willing to accept these cloths is precisely because I know that he needs these cloths."
.”
Guan Ji pursed her lips and felt her eyes heat up.
The figures of the late emperor, your lord, uncles from the Zhang family, uncles from the Zhao family, uncles and others, both dead and living, as long as they had fought for the Han Dynasty, flashed before my eyes one by one in a daze.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore."
Huang Yueying smiled and said, "In my life, I will follow him, whether it is hardship or happiness, that's it. But you still have a choice. I heard that someone came to propose marriage a few days ago. What's going on?"
"Oh, I'm from the Xu family, I didn't agree."
Guan Ji wiped the corners of her eyes and smiled lightly.
"Then you won't break someone's legs."
Huang Yueying looked at her with a strange expression, "Now Xu Rendu is working in the inner government after all. Although he is not a high-ranking official, he was an old minister who followed the late emperor to Shu. Where can you put people's face like this?"
"Since he is an old minister, he can only stay in the inner palace, so he doesn't seem to have much ability."
Guan Ji's face still looked indifferent, "I heard that the news of my marriage to the Li family came from the Xu family?"
Huang Yueying shook her head, "It was just a slip of the tongue by Xu Rendu's eldest brother Xu Hongfei."
"That's what he did on purpose."
A slightly annoyed look appeared on Guan Ji's face, "He wanted to marry Si Niang. No matter how he tried to please Si Niang or asked Aunt Zhang to agree, no one would criticize him. But he resorted to such despicable means.
snort……"
The so-called underhanded tactics are nothing more than slandering a certain country bumpkin.
"He doesn't want to marry Si Niang, but proposes marriage to you." Huang Yueying said, then looked at Guan Ji, who was dressed in women's clothing, "Even if he made a slip of the tongue, you wouldn't be so cruel."
"My niece was never ruthless. She just ended up sparring with him and made a mistake."
Guan Ji raised her head slightly, her long white neck as proud as a swan's neck, "He made a slip of the tongue, and others can't catch him. My niece is like this, and he can't catch me."
There was a smile in Huang Yueying's eyes, with a little narrowness, "Then you have decided? Are you sure it's him?"
When Guan Ji heard this, she immediately shrank back like a proud swan whose neck was broken, bit her lip, and showed a stubborn look on her face, "He once said that wherever the sun and moon shine, the rivers
Wherever he goes, they are all Han people, so I believe him."
"anything else?"
Huang Yueying asked again.
So the stubborn Guan Ji shrank down another three points.
His voice became lower and lower, and Na Na said, "Also... and also, my niece thinks he is very good."
"I'm afraid this sentence is the truth."
Huang Yueying clapped her hands and laughed, "Daughter's family, as long as you can meet someone who can sleep with you and be kind to you, what else do you ask for?"
"Not to mention that this Feng Mingwen is good-tempered, talented, famous, and a man who can make money. Which woman has everything after following him, so what else could she ask for?"
"Sanniang, you've made a lot of money, do you know that?"